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Tunisia, Algeria have "moral responsibility" towards Libya: Tunisian FM

Xinhua, March 13, 2015 Adjust font size:

Visiting Tunisian Foreign Minister Tayeb Baccouche said on Thursday that increasing violence and absence of a state in Libya forces Algeria and Tunisia to take "moral responsibility" towards the Libyan people to help them surpass the crisis.

"We have moral responsibility towards the brotherly Libyan people, because the security of Algeria and Tunisia is the security of Libya," Baccouche told a joint news conference with his Algerian counterpart Ramtane Lamamra in Algiers.

Given Libya is juggling two rival governments, Lamamra stressed that his country "recognizes states, not governments."

"For now, it is time to stop bloodshed in Libya and find ways out of the crisis," Lamamra said.

Baccouche endorsed his Algerian counterpart, saying "we prefer to focus on how to settle the crisis rather than which of the governments we should recognize."

A UN-sponsored inter-Libyan dialogue was hosted on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Algerian capital Algiers, in an attempt to put an end to the four-year civil war in Libya.

During the two-day dialogue, 20 political leaders and activists adopted the Declaration of Algiers which reaffirms commitment to respect Libyan political process based on democracy and peaceful changeover of political power.

The participants also expressed their concern over the deteriorating security situation in Libya and the increasing terrorist acts. Endit